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Brooke Shields On Her Prom Dress (+ More Cool Stuff We Learned At Love, Loss And What I Wore)

I bet the hordes of high school boys who didn't ask Brooke Shields to prom are kicking themselves right about now! At last night's special performance of Love, Loss and What I Wore (which was part of Glamour's Love Your Life conference at 92nd St Y), she revealed that she and her best friend went to prom together--in the same dress!--because neither of them got asked.

It was just one of the sweet, touching, and totally hilarious moments that came out of the post-performance Q&A, moderated by Stacy London. She had the audience in stitches while she read audience questions to Brooke, Natasha Lyonne, Sherri Shepherd, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, all of whom have had turns on the stage in the show's NYC production.

While Brooke and her bestie might have worn the same dress (maroon, taffeta, and off-the-shoulder), Stacy shared that she was a die-hard fashionista even back in high school. "I wore Chanel!" she told us. "I guess I knew what I wanted to do later in life. My grandfather bought me the dress--it was white pique cotton with black lace," and--sad but true!--she has no idea where it is today.

And the ladies didn't just share their prom dress stories--they got down and dirty on the subject of Spanx. When an audience member asked, "To Spanx or not to Spanx, that is the question," Jamie-Lynn replied in an instant: "I can't believe that is a question!" But Sherri confessed that she hated the feeling of being sucked in and didn't find the pain worth the gain. As for Brooke, she had a clever solution to a problem we've tackled here on Glamour.com before: How the heck do you hook up while wearing those things, anyway? "Sometimes you just have to do it before you leave the restaurant!" she said. "Just say 'oh I'm going to powder my nose,' then you go into the bathroom and take them off!"

The conversation eventually turned, as all good girl talk does, to high heels. Natasha said she was officially over them at 31: "I just don't need to wear them anymore," she told us, as a visibly horrified Stacy (who said her shoe collection makes her happier than almost anything on Earth) shook her head. "It's too hard to run around New York and try to hail cabs in them," Natasha added, to which Brooke responded, "It will be a lot easier to get a cab in those high heels!"

The whole evening was an incredible reminder about just how powerful a woman's wardrobe can be. Read more about Love, Loss and What I Wore in our interview with Nora and Delia Ephron here, and purchase tickets here.